Vulnerability · Published Apr 23, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-12079
Critical 10.0
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.2% (higher than 83% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)10.0Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)2.2%top 17.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Beaker before 0.8.9 allows a sandbox escape, enabling system access and code execution. This occurs because Electron context isolation is not used, and therefore an attacker can conduct a prototype-pollution attack against the Electron internal messaging API.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/1519 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/releases/tag/0.8.9 x_refsource_MISC